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Definition of Icarus
1. Noun. (Greek mythology) son of Daedalus; while escaping from Crete with his father (using the wings Daedalus had made) he flew too close to the sun and the wax melted and he fell into the Aegean and drowned.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Icarus
Literary usage of Icarus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Entomologist; an Illustrated Journal of General Entomology by Edward Newman, Royal Entomological Society of London (1887)
"GA LEWCOCK ;, Oxford Road, Islington, N. LYC^ENA icarus, HERMAPHRODITE (?).—I
took on the Landslip, Ventnor, Isle of Wight, 19th August, 1886, ..."
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